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All thought is driven out of sight, and before long unpleasant things start to happen right in front of us..." Kari Hukkila's One Thousand & One is a philosophical, essayistic novel about catastrophes, both natural and man-made, about humans' ability to respond to catastrophes by thinking or, at the very least, simply managing to survive. Hukkila's novel is a cornucopia of micro-histories, digressions, and a broad gallery of characters ranging...

As the 19th century comes to a close, Friedrich Nietzsche and Vincent van Gogh unknowingly traverse proximate geographical terrain, nearly circling one another like close but distant stars as the philosopher wanders between Nizza, Sils Maria, and Torino, and the painter wanders between Paris, Arles, and Saint-Rémy. In the midst of their philosophical and artistic pursuits, simultaneously, the Eiffel Tower, symbol of artistic progress and indus...

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Bleedings - Incipit Tragoedia is a series of poems Tinti composed in the spring of 2020. The epigraphic collections of the National Roman Museum, the Capitoline Museums, and the National Archæological Museum of Naples, as well as the most recent funerary inscriptions, were a spur for this work that aims to transfigure our fear of death, pain, and suffering. A writing that starts from ruins, crosses cemeteries, and smells wounds, the traces of ...

It is sometimes proclaimed that crises generate creative powers. An idea to consider, beyond the banal advertising or entrepreneurial statements about the fruitful nature of crises (political, social, economic, or personal). It is the psychic, literary, and philosophical aspect of the notion of crisis that is explored here in its relationship to creation. The crisis of creativity: silence, withdrawal, sterility. Everyone knows these periods of...

Interglacial Narrows gathers a range of Pierre Joris' poems written between 2015 and 2021, including an extended version of the Book of U / Le livre des cormorans by Joris and Nicole Peyrafitte, initially published by Galerie Simoncini in Luxembourg in 2017. Both central to the book and opening up its time-lines is the section "Homage to P.C." Put together in 2020 to celebrate Paul Celan's 100th birth-year, it gathers poems the earliest of w...

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The Winter 2022 issue of Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics features work by Fritz Senn, Samuel Beckett, Kari Hukkila, Mark Kanak, and Hans Lebert. The center of this issue is a special feature of Catalan literature and art, including work by Raul Garrigasait, Eugenio d'Ors, Cebrià Montoliu, Xavier Mas Craviotto, Anna Gual, Pepe Sales, Felicia Fuster, and Núria Perpinyà. The issue closes with a review by Nicholas Birns of Mikhail Bakhtin: T...

With a starting point on July 14, 2021, when the Centre national de littérature hosted Pierre Joris' 75th birthday celebration, Always the Many, Never the One builds upon the initial interview by Florent Toniello that took place that day to go deeper into a major Luxembourg-American poet's reflections on literature, philosophy, and life. Throughout this book Joris develops a core concept of his thinking and writing, "in-betweenness, " using bo...

At his home in Velletri, the actor and gastronome Ugo Tognazzi loved to gather friends, family, and colleagues, entertaining them with his extravagant theatrics. In preparing those legendary feasts, he would often stroll through his garden in search of artichokes and other seasonal delights, visit his chicken coop for fresh eggs, or reach into the massive family fridge that dominated his kitchen, which he considered the "family chapel." This...

Being on the road - the ultimate litany ¿ "I am simply a traveling explorer conducting research, without a commission, specialty, or expertise." In this semi-fictional account, Blixa Bargeld recounts life on tour in 2008 with Einstürzende Neubauten - from Lisbon to Moscow, Oslo to Naples, criss-crossing Europe. Along the way we encounter mind numbing routines, interesting restaurants (good and bad), colorful museums, rocky bus rides, mundane...

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Considered an eerie attack on realism, when published in 1934, Miklós Szentkuthy's debut novel Prae so astonished Hungarian critics that many deemed it monstrous, derogatorily referred to Szentkuthy as cosmopolitan, and classified him alien to Hungarian culture. ¿Incomparable & unprecedented in Hungarian literature, Prae compels recognition as a serious contribution to modernist fiction, as ambitious in its aspirations as Ulysses or À la rec...

Writings on Art and Poetical Theory contains a selection of Fernando Pessoa's writings (or those of his heteronyms) on art and poetical theory, originally written in English. In Pessoa's oeuvre one finds not only literary and fictional works but also a multiplicity of theoretical texts on the most diverse subjects concerning artistic movements, literature, and writers. In this book, we witness Pessoa explore, through various heteronyms, genera...

Un paseo bajo la luz de la luna terminó en pesadilla para Andrea Sposito cuando las manos de un extraño surgieron de la oscuridad. Su siguiente recuerdo fue despertar atada a una mesa, bajo el completo control de un desconocido ocultado tras una máscara con el rostro de la alegría. Esa imagen fue el principio de su calvario que terminó siete días después al ser llevada a la playa, enterrada viva en la arena y abandonada para que el mar se enca...

Mientras Víctor está predestinado a redimir la memoria de su antepasado en el lugar injusto que perpetúa el olvido, la promesa hecha a su abuela embarcará a Águeda en un viaje hasta el origen de su nombre, allí el destino la empujará a enmendar la sinrazón que enturbia el recuerdo de un alma que busca redención. El azar ha cruzado sus vidas, pero para poner en orden sus cuitas no será suficiente el nexo que les une. Mientras todo transcurre es...

Carmelo Bene (1937-2002) was a notorious Italian actor, writer, and director who inaugurated his theater in 1959 with Camus' Caligula then exploded onto the artistic scene with his outré Christ '63. Later, he collaborated with Pasolini, Glauber Rocha, Bussotti and others as well as philosophers, like Gilles Deleuze. ¿ His novel Our Lady of the Turks (1964) recounts the bizarre, eccentric rituals of a young actor on a knightly quest, in the man...

The informal education of navigating the work environment happens on the job by trial and error. In "A Holistic Approach to Your Career", the author shares the hard-earned wisdom and experience of a forty-one-year professional career - detailing attributes, skills, and action steps which she considers essential to career success and better positioning yourself for that next career move. "A Holistic Approach to Your Career" is an invaluable too...